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You might also have noticed that many of the synonyms or related slang
words are racist/sexist/offensive/downright appalling - that's mostly thanks
to the lovely community over at Urban Dictionary (not affiliated with Urban
Thesaurus). Urban Thesaurus crawls the web and collects millions of
different slang terms, many of which come from UD and turn out to be
really terrible and insensitive (this is the nature of urban slang, I suppose).
Hopefully the related words and synonyms for "man o' war" are a little
tamer than average.
Urban Thesaurus
The Urban Thesaurus was created by indexing millions of different slang
terms which are defined on sites like Urban Dictionary. These indexes are
then used to find usage correlations between slang terms. The official
Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions. Note that this
thesaurus is not in any way affiliated with Urban Dictionary.
Due to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you
mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. The higher the
terms are in the list, the more likely that they're relevant to the word or
phrase that you searched for. The search algorithm handles phrases and
strings of words quite well, so for example if you want words that are
related to lol and rofl you can type in lol rofl and it should give you a pile of
related slang terms. Or you might try boyfriend or girlfriend to get words
that can mean either one of these (e.g. bae). Please also note that due to
the nature of the internet (and especially UD), there will often be many
terrible and offensive terms in the results.
There is still lots of work to be done to get this slang thesaurus to give
consistently good results, but I think it's at the stage where it could be
useful to people, which is why I released it.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in
this project: @krisk, @HubSpot, and @mongodb.